RimWorld
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A colony sim where an AI storyteller throws raids, plagues and heartbreaks at a handful of survivors on a frontier planet. It's a story generator first and a strategy game second.
Kit's verdict · 9.2/10
The greatest story machine in gaming, and a dark one at that.Kit · Sadkitty Games
Loved
- Endless emergent stories
- Deep systems that interact brilliantly
- Huge modding community
Not so much
- Basic graphics
- DLC adds up quickly
Play it if anyone who loves stories that write themselves.
Skip it if players who want tidy, fair challenges.
Cheats & codes
Every RimWorld cheat we know
Opens debug tools to spawn items, kill raiders, change weather and more, plus a god mode for building.PC · Tick Development mode in Options, then use the new icons at the top of the screen.
Single-player only. Cheats can turn off achievements and some saves; use them on a spare save.
Tips
Play it better
- Build a freezer early: a walled room with a cooler keeps food from rotting.
- Give each colonist their own bedroom to avoid mood penalties.
- Set work priorities manually so your best colonists do the right jobs.
- Build a killbox: a single path through defences that funnels raiders into your guns.
- Keep a stock of medicine and a clean hospital with beds.
- Pick Cassandra for a steady curve, Phoebe for a gentle game or Randy for chaos.
Secrets & unlockables
Hidden in plain sight
Tap a secret to reveal it.
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Trivia
- Creator Tynan Sylvester was a designer on BioShock Infinite.
- The game was Kickstarted in 2013 and reached 1.0 in October 2018.
- Expansions include Royalty, Ideology, Biotech and Anomaly.
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